potato chip

noun

a thin slice of potato fried until crisp and usually salted.
Also called Saratoga chip.

Origin of potato chip

First recorded in 1835–45

Words nearby potato chip

potato, potato apple, potato bean, potato beetle, potato blight, potato chip, potato crisp, potato eaters, the, potato famine, irish, potato leafhopper, potato moth

British Dictionary definitions for potato chip

potato chip

noun

(usually plural) another name for chip (def. 4)
(usually plural) US and Canadian a very thin slice of potato fried and eaten cold as a snack Also called (in eg Britain): crisp